Best Maradona Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?”

Differences Maradona Platini

Author:Michel Patini

“I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.”

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Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.”

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Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.”

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Author:Alex Ferguson

“He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.”

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Author:Jose Mourinho

“Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.”

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Author:Lionel Messi

“As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.”

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Author:Daniel Alarcon

“He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.”

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Author:Ander Herrera

“Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.”

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Author:Adriano Galliani

“It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.”

“Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best.”

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Author:Xavi

“Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category.”

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Author:Alex Ferguson

“Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.”

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Author:Joey Barton

“Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.”

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Author:Oliver Kahn

“Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona.”

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Author:Joey Barton

“Diego (Maradona) has filled us with emotions. But between the cracks, without doubt, Messi is better than Maradona.”

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Author:Diego Simeone

“Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.”

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Author:Adriano Galliani

“He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.”

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Author:Franz Beckenbauer

“Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?”

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Author:Diego Maradona

“I am not Pele or Maradona”

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Author:Robbie Savage

“...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)”

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Author:Hristo Stoichkov

“I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.”

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Author:Sergio Aguero

“I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.”

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Author:Diego Maradona

“The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.”

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Author:Diego Maradona

“Every time he plays, Leo Messi reminds me more of Maradona, both left-footed and short, Messi is the best player in the world, along with Kaká and Cristiano Ronaldo. For us it is not a surprise. Since he began to come and train with us and we knew we would go down this path. Someday I will explain that I was at the birth of one of the footballing greats: Leo Messi.”

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Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.”

Can Do Football Orange Maradona Zidane

Author:Michel Patini

“Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.”

Firsts Conditions Beats Being The Best Messi Maradona

Author:Michel Patini

“I have played against (Michel) Platini, (Diego) Maradona, (Johan) Cruyff and played with George Best — a lot of big names, but none of them has been able to do what Messi does. Two years ago I said that the best player I played against was Maradona and the best player I have played with was Bestie. But I can now say I have never seen a player as good as Messi. He’s in a league of his own.”

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Author:John Terry

“I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.”

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Author:Emir Kusturica

“For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls”

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Author:David Pleat

“You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all.”

Duncan Maradona

Author:Tommy Docherty

“Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.”

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Author:Franz Beckenbauer

“Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.”

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Author:Terry Eagleton

“I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.”

Thinking Bigger Maradona

Author:Kevin Keegan

“I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.”

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Author:Roy Keane

“Even if I played for a million years, I’d never come close to Maradona. Not that I’d want to anyway. He’s the greatest there’s ever been.”

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Author:Lionel

“I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.”

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Author:Ryan Giggs

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